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The very best and latest ideas from The School of Life are contained in our inspiring new volume, A Therapeutic Journey. Written by Alain de Botton, this is a guide to happiness and mental well-being, a tool to help you understand yourself and plot your way to emotional maturity. At heart this is a book about happiness - about regaining the thread of our lives, rediscovering meaning, and finding our way back to connection, warmth and joy.

A Therapeutic Journey is a collection of essays about mental challenge and health. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is a practical guide to well-being and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments.

Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of forms of mental pain and illness, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we might become ill; how we can explain things to friends, family and colleagues; how we can find our ways towards recovery; and how we can build resilience, so as to live wisely alongside our difficulties.

Paperback book | 384 pages | 198mm x 130mm

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Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Abigail ★★★★★

I've been reading one short essay from this each morning with my coffee, and it's become the calmest part of my day. De Botton's writing makes big ideas about anxiety and self-understanding feel genuinely manageable.

Riley ★★★★★

The essays are arranged so each one meets you where you are that day—some are two pages, others longer, and I found myself dog-earing half the book. de Botton’s voice is calm without being preachy, which is rare for this genre. It’s become my bedtime ritual for the past week.

Sebastian ★★★★★

I was skeptical about another self-help book, but this one reads more like a thoughtful companion than a lecture. The way it breaks down emotional struggles into digestible, almost poetic lessons made me feel genuinely understood, and I’ve already reread the section on sorrow twice.